Today in Trench 1 we were again focussing very much on
planning and exploring the barrack interior. In the south of the barrack the
team are taking off a clay layer and exposing an increasingly wide-spread
charcoally spread which seems to cover much of the barrack interior. Elsewhere
in the building, we continue to find spreads of metalled surface. Lots of work
on deconstructing the central wall of the barrack- the cobbled layer has come
off and we are down to a very crudely composed ‘foundation’ layer which seems
to be comprised of rubble roughly dumped in a trench – little order and lots of
voids. On the eastern rampart, the slot has been beautifully cleaned and now
photographed. In the corner the turret interior continues to be exposed.
In Trench 2, the trench extension is looking good-
mattocking is over and we are down to trowels. We can certainly see the top of
the east wall of the corridor coming through into the new area. In the southern
building, the central area of the ‘park rails’ building contains a large area
of burnt clay (probably a hearth) that is being slowly dismantled. To the west
of our new flagstoned area, Sue and Bethany are exploring a possible pit like
feature. New pits have also been found up against the eastern face of the new
mortared wall between the bath-house and the strip buildings. In the rectangular
structure that overlays this we are also
finding new surfaces and spreads, inevitably, of clay.
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